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God is so great that he can become small. God is so powerful that he can make himself vulnerable and come to us as a defenseless child, so that we can love him. God is so good that he can give up his divine splendor and come down to a stable, so that we might find him, so that his goodness might touch us, give itself to us and continue to work through us. This is Christmas: "You are my son, this day I have begotten you".
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Homily
The Nativity of the Lord
St Peter's Basilica
24 December 2005
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Christmas has become the Feast of gifts in imitation of God who has given himself to us. Let us allow our heart, our soul and our mind to be touched by this fact! Among the many gifts that we buy and receive, let us not forget the true gift: to give each other something of ourselves, to give each other something of our time, to open our time to God. In this way anxiety disappears, joy is born, and the feast is created.
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Homily
The Nativity of the Lord
St Peter's Basilica
24 December 2006
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God’s sign is simplicity. God’s sign is the baby. God’s sign is that he makes himself small for us. This is how he reigns.
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Homily
The Nativity of the Lord
St Peter's Basilica
24 December 2006
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The more than 2,000 years of Christian history are filled with examples of men and women, youth and adults, children and elderly people who believed in the mystery of Christmas, who opened their arms to the Emmanuel and with their lives became beacons of light and hope.
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General Audience
3 January 2007
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May every Christian and every community feel the joy of sharing with others the Good News that "God so loved the world that he gave his Only Son... that the world might be saved through him". This is the authentic meaning of Christmas, which we must rediscover and live intensely.
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Angelus Address
St Peter's Square
23 December 2007
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It is only the Child lying in the manger who possesses the true secret of life. For this reason he asks us to welcome him, to make room for him within us, in our hearts, in our homes, in our cities and in our societies.
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General Audience
3 January 2007
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The grace of God has appeared. That is why Christmas is a feast of light. Not like the full daylight which illumines everything, but a glimmer beginning in the night and spreading out from a precise point in the universe: from the stable of Bethlehem, where the divine Child was born.
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URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE
Christmas 2008
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Jesus was born in a grotto, because there was no room for him elsewhere, Jesus experienced the hardships that many of you yourselves experience. Christmas helps us understand that God never abandons us and always comes to meet our needs. He protects us and is concerned with each one of us, because every person, especially the lowliest and most defenseless, is precious in the eyes of the Father, rich in tenderness and mercy.
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Address
'GIFT OF MARY' House
Vatican
4 January 2008
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